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350 Censorship quotes by 250 unique authors

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and… — Franklin P. Adams
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life. — John Waters
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when… — John Steinbeck
The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. — Tommy Smothers
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be… — William O. Douglas
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world. — Jimmy Wales
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship. — Nadine Gordimer
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind… — Jo Nesbo
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. — John Pilger
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way… — Ali Smith
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without… — Cristina Saralegui
I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing… — Katey Sagal
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure,… — Morley Safer
Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to… — Zoe Saldana
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who… — Lois Lowry
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. — Bernardo Bertolucci
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took… — Eugenio Montale
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man. — Milos Forman
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I… — Milos Forman
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. — Robert Cormier
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. — Judy Blume
The only thing that is obscene is censorship. — Craig Reucassel
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship. — Jeff Buckley
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel… — Stephen Chbosky

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